Wichita eagle., 1887-09-04
A PoRTENToUs PEN PICTURE.

The following statement OF the present
conditions of affairs In this country IS re-
lates to the social status, and the dangers
which beset our civic institutions By the
encroachment of the evils named upon the
peace of the community Is taken from the
statesmanly paper of Senator ingalls, on
the proposed sixteenth amendment to- the
constitution sand commends itself to the
thoughtful consideration of the political
economist and to all who have care for
the future welfare and happiness Of the
citizens of this country. The matters con-
sidered are of momentous import:
D By the close of the present century, and
perhaps earlier, there will not be an acre of
the public domain upon which corn and
wheat can be raised without irrigation,
subject to pre-emption or homestead entry
within the present limits OF the United
States. Real estate will increase enor-
mously in value. Our surplus population
no longer having the fertile area of free land
over which to diffuse itself, will accumu.
late in cities. The rich will become
richer and the poor will become poorer.
The middle classes will gradually disappear
as the struggles for existence becomes
fierce and relentless A dim consciousness
of impending peril has already penetrated
the public mind, and in obedience to its
admonitions the Chinese have been exclud.
ed with barbarous rigor, In violation of
treaties, and notwithstanding the sonorous
manifesto of 1868, that Repatriation is a
natural and inherent right of all people, ;"
and that any declaration, instruction, opin-
lon, order, or decision of any officer of the
government which denies, restricts, i'm
pairs or questions this right. is 'inconsist
ent with the principles of this government. !"
In obedience to the same impulse the &C.
QUESTION of real estate by aliens has been
rigidly limited by act of congress. The
demand for further legislation
in the same direction is
imperative, and can not be disregarded.
The sophistication of the national suffrage
by the unrestrained admission to Citizen
ship of assisted paupers, fugitive felons,
and the avowed enemies of the social con-
tract, must cease. Our capacity for as
similation is exhausted. More than one
million skilled and unskilled laborers are
now unemployed, or employed at wages In
adequate for the support of themselves and
their families. Trade and industry are
menaced by unlawful combinations that re-
sort to the destruction of life and
proprty to accomplish their de-
signs, and the hour is approaching
when the active coalition of the conserva-
tive forces of the country will be necessary
to prevent destructive organic changes in
our social and political system. The con-
stent infusion of fresh blood is essential to
national health, but there is no blood poison
SO fatal as adulteration of race We are
no longer homogeneous Unity of purpose
and interest does not exist The hordes of
socialism and anarchy are openly organized
under the red flag, drilled and armed, in
famed by incendiary appeals, denouncing
property as robbery, and openly declaring
war against all social institutions.
The atrocious murder of policemen
in Chicago found its apologists,
and SO feeble was the force of public opin-
lon that at the next municipal election it
required the cooperation of both political
parties to prevent the capture OF the
city government by these ex-
ecrable malefactors, whose inso-
lent challenge should have been met by the
bayonet and the gallows. And SO strong
is the sympathy among the hitherto unsus-
pected classes that is doubtedful whether
the felons who were convicted by a cour-
ageous jury do not escape the penalty of
heir boasted crimes, through the ihtrigues
Of pusillanimous politicians, or the newt
able conservatism Of an elective judiciary"